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andriy [413]
3 years ago
11

Find the length of the missing leg of a right triangle given a leg of length 15 and a hypotenuse of length 17. Leave your answer

in simplest radical form.
Geography
1 answer:
Alex Ar [27]3 years ago
6 0
Using Pythagorean's Theorem of a^2+b^2=c^2, with a and b being two legs and c being the hypotenuse.
 You can find that the leg(15) squared is 225. The hypotenuse(17) squared is 289.
289-225=64
The square root of 64 is 8
So the missing leg of the triangle has a length of 8 units.
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